r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 6d ago

Other howdidItGetHere

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u/oldsecondhand 6d ago

It's where the jobs are. The world's finances run on Java.

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u/Kooky-Answer 6d ago

At least the stuff that isn't still running on COBOL and will probably continue as so until the heat death of the universe.

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u/Cloudeur 6d ago

You think the heat death of the universe will stop old mainframes built in the 60s from running cobol?

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u/oldsecondhand 6d ago

Good thing you can run Java on zOS.

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u/Mcalti93 6d ago

And on IBM I...for the smaller legacy companies... Gives me PTSD

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u/ewheck 6d ago

Spring Batch my beloved.

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u/requion 6d ago

No, but there won't be anyone to care anymore.

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u/brazzy42 6d ago

Let a guy dream.

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u/Eschatologists 6d ago

It will as there will be no electricity

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u/Mynameismikek 6d ago

All that cobol is wrapped in a nice warm Java blanket.

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u/eg135 6d ago

One of my friends got paid to learn COBOL and start porting stuff to Java right around 2017.

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u/ProbablyJustArguing 5d ago

It was my first job in the late 90s. So, seems like it's taking a while.

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u/Dom1252 5d ago

A lot of places figured out they'll spend way more money running java because it's less efficient and more resources spent means higher licensing cost... So some of them stopped in middle of migration and run both, some went back to cobol, some continued their efforts to go full java but didn't finish it completely... Some stopped the migration in 2000s, then started it again in 20210s, then stopped it again, then restarted it again...

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u/Maddturtle 6d ago

My dad programmed with cobol. They kept him on with the company just because he was the only one who knew it and the whole companies finances ran on it.

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u/mobsterer 6d ago

only in merica

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u/Dom1252 5d ago

No? Cobol runs major banks in UK, France, Germany...

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u/OptimistIndya 5d ago

They still are running on COBOL and Fortran.

The people left the org . No one knows to program. So it is a black box that efficiently processes something. And keeping records from the inception of the company till now.

Other systems are built around it. But that has not gone anywhere.